Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time

Re:Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time by misterbwong on Thursday January 13, 2022 @12:51PM (#29924038)

Cool game! I know you're trying to keep it simple but a couple suggestions that might help and won't increase game complexity too much:

  1. Add a share button to share your score
  2. Add a timer component (can be hidden).  It will add urgency.
  3. Speed up the ball as time goes on (maybe i haven't gotten far enough for this to happen...?)
  4. If you're adding more points for "same rotation hit", make it clear that it's doing that and don't just add more points to the score (shake the number, throw some fireworks, or something).  Your focus is on the ball not the score so you won't even notice the number went up a little bit more than usual until you lose.

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Re:Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time by Aachen on Thursday January 13, 2022 @12:57PM (#29924122)

You use share buttons in games / on websites? I've never even clicked one, what even should that do, give a copyable text or a URL to a picture to share or so?

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Re:Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time by misterbwong on Thursday January 13, 2022 @01:11PM (#29924333)

I personally don't but one look at wordle and you'll see that there are a lot of people that actually do :D

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Re:Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time by usmannk on Thursday January 13, 2022 @02:24PM (#29925438)

Wordle has the most fantastic share button I've seen. It copies a spoiler-free version of your game board into your clipboard so you can share as you wish, no links or growth spam. Normally I avoid the buttons because they just try to paste a link to my twitter profile.

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Re:Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time by ask_b123 on Friday January 14, 2022 @12:26PM (#29937277)

Just tried it out!:

Wordle 209 6/6

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EDIT: the formatting doesn't seem to work here, green and yellow squares disappear after posting the comment.

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Re:Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time by TheSalarian on Thursday January 13, 2022 @02:09PM (#29925207)

On point 3, there are speed ups around 40, ~80, and on. The colors change at the same points.

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